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22nd May 2015

Video: Australian star James O’Conner with the mother and father of all howlers this morning

What can go wrong will go wrong

Neil Treacy

If you could sum up the Reds’ season in one clip, this would be it.

The Queensland Reds suffered another costly defeat at the hands of the Sharks this morning, and the turning point came with around 12 minutes to go, as James O’Connor’s howler literally handed the South Africans victory.

O’Connor went to launch a kick out of his in-goal area, but instead made a complete hames of it, dribbling it straight into the hands of Sharks scrum half Stefan Ungerer.

Despite pulling up seconds before with what looks like either cramp of a muscle injury, Ungerer was able to fall over the line to score the try, before lying down to stretch the injury.

An absolute omnishambles from the Reds.